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Example sentences for: rightful

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Groening's willing, if somewhat ironic, embrace of the marketing bonanza his creation has unleashed may have cost him his rightful spot in the The Comics Journal 's highbrow/subculture pantheon.
Keyes filed papers earlier this year demanding that Kansas return portions of the state to the rightful ownership of the Republic of Texas.
In fact, the only rightful claimant to the crown was the elderly Prince Henry.
Defying the two-year French occupation, philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte exhorted the German people to assume their rightful destiny as a nation.
The Natives, rightful owners of the land, are immutable, their pithy pidginisms ("Man builds great boats of iron, but the sea is stronger") deserving of the utmost reverence ("You must remember what he said.